Archive for 2021
October 14, 2021
DON’T GET COCKY: Victor Davis Hanson Has a Prediction About Midterms Democrats Won’t Want to Hear.
“There’s going to be a reckoning,” the historian said on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
“I think whether it’s Mexican-American communities on the border or where I live, or soccer moms mad about what’s being taught in schools, it’s not a top down, woke revolution,” he continued. “It’s a grassroots populist revolution. We’re going to see it in the next midterms I think a lot of these institutions are going to rue the positions they’ve taken and the damage they’ve done.”
After host Tucker Carlson blasted the president over how the vaccine mandates are damaging a wide swath of institutions in America, Hanson pointed out that criticism of the president’s policies are not just coming from conservatives.
“It’s not Tucker Carlson that’s saying this alone,” Hanson noted. “It’s Barack Obama who says the border is unsustainable. Or Larry Summers saying the economic agenda won’t work. Or senators on the Democratic side said Afghanistan is a disaster. So it’s everybody that’s saying ‘what’s going on? We’ve never seen anything like it.”
As Glenn has written, “Really, don’t get cocky…If you want to win, donate and volunteer. Winning takes work, and commenting on Internet blogs, even this one, doesn’t count.”
MICROBIOME NEWS: Some antibiotics may kill ‘helpful’ gut bacteria, study finds.
HMM: Army Halts Widely-Hyped Multi-Billion Dollar Advanced Augmented Reality Goggle Program. “The U.S. Army has paused the acquisition of advanced augmented reality headsets for its troops, a program it had heavily publicized in recent years. This revelation comes less than a year after the service announced it had awarded Microsoft a contract potentially worth close to $22 billion to produce tens of thousands of these Integrated Visual Augmentation Systems (IVAS) in the coming years.”
Is the technology not ready? The money better spent elsewhere? Something else? No one is saying yet.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): My bet is on “the tech was irretrievably compromised by the Chinese.”
OUT ON A LIMB: Sen. Tom Cotton: Biden Should Have Dealt With U.S. Port Operations ‘Months Ago.’ “He celebrates today that they are going to keep the Port of Los Angeles open 24 hours a day, which they probably should have been doing months ago. At the same time the White House is saying you are probably not going to get everything you want for Christmas. Well, who’s going to save Christmas for Americans? Pete Buttigieg? Please. (Transportation Secretary) Pete Buttigieg couldn’t organize a one-car funeral. He is not going to organize our nation’s ports and railroads and highways and airports.”
He can apparently organize some pretty impressive PR ink though.
REPUBLICANS POUNCE! There it is! WaPo’s approach to reporting on Biden’s supply chain crisis looks familiar (just guess…).
To be fair, Reuters did beat them to the equally shopworn “Republicans sieze” angle on supply lines on Tuesday.
SAD SAD SAD: Rolling Stones Go Woke, Retire ‘Brown Sugar’ from Concert Playlist. “Now that cancel culture has discovered classic rock, where will it end? I made a short list.”
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And ICYMI: Forget What You’re Being Told. Here’s the Real Reason for California’s Trucker Shortage.
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Study: Testosterone levels matter for sex lives of both men and women.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: China set to send 3 astronauts on longest crewed mission yet. “China is preparing to send three astronauts to live on its space station for six months — a new milestone for a program that has advanced rapidly in recent years.”
ITS ORIGIN AND PURPOSE, STILL A TOTAL MYSTERY: Kongsberg: Bow and arrow attack appears to be terrorism – officials. “A deadly bow and arrow attack in Norway which left five people dead appears to have been an act of terror, Norway’s security service (PST) said. However a motive has not yet been determined. The suspect, a 37-year-old Danish citizen named Espen Andersen Brathen, had converted to Islam and there were fears he had been radicalised.”
WHEN I WAS SAYING THIS A YEAR OR MORE AGO PEOPLE CALLED ME A SCIENCE-DENIER: Vaccinated or not, everyone is likely to get Covid at some point, many experts say.
JOE ROGAN INTERVIEWS SANJAY GUPTA AND A TRAIN WRECK ENSUES: “Not one media personality — trust me I’ve faced down almost all of them personally — can withstand even basic Socratic inquiry. They are idiots. This is why they almost never do long form discussions. This is what happens.”
For a full two minutes, Rogan presses Gupta to address the disparity in how he treats the two similar situations, and the CNN doctor has no answer. At one point, he quips about getting a booster, again completely missing the point Rogan is making.
And the hits just keep on coming: Joe Rogan Goes There With Sanjay Gupta Over Ivermectin. “Gupta just has no answer for why he, as CNN’s chief medical analyst, did nothing to quell the hysteria his network spread over Rogan taking ivermectin.”
MEET THE NEW PROTECTED CLASSES: Facebook rule protects journalists and activists as ‘involuntary’ public figures. “The social media company, which allows more critical commentary of public figures than of private individuals, is changing its approach on the harassment of journalists and ‘human rights defenders’, who it says are in the public eye due to their work rather than their public personas.”
WELCOME BACK, CARTER: Misery Index: How Are Average Americans Weathering the Biden Economy?
INTERESTING BOOK: 100 No-Equipment Workouts Vol. 1: Easy to Follow Home Workout Routines with Visual Guides for all Fitness Levels. #CommissionEarned
THAT’S (NOT) TRANSPARENCY: Southwest CEO Talking Out Of Both Sides Of His Face. “Kelly still hasn’t come clean about the reasons behind the cancelled flights. He needs to do that, and to clarify Southwest’s positions on imposing vaccine mandates on their employees, at a bare minimum.”
THEY KEEP PAYING THE DANEGELD: Target Continues Woke Crusades, Gives Another $100 Million to ‘Black-Led’ Organizations.
I DOUBT THE CRYPTO BANS WILL STOP WITH CHINA: This is the true scale of China’s bitcoin exodus. “The figures, gathered by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) found that by the end of August 2021, the percentage of bitcoin mining taking place in China had ‘effectively dropped to zero’. That is a staggering reversal for a country that, as late as September 2019, was believed to be home to 75.53 percent of global bitcoin mining operations.”
CRISIS BY DESIGN: Mayorkas says No More Workplace Raids to Arrest Illegal Aliens.
THE TROUBLE WITH EVANGELICAL ELITES IS THEY CRAVE ACCEPTANCE FROM NON-EVANGELICAL ELITES: The Failure of Evangelical Elites. “Here’s the rub: Within Christian circles, particularly those of the leadership class and its associated institutions, the desire to appease religion’s cultured despisers has become a powerful force.”
Given that our society’s elites are garbage, it’s surprising that so many people want their acceptance. And yet.
TERROR IN NORWAY: 5 killed, 2 injured in bow and arrow attack in Norway, considered terrorism. “Police said the man who they said shot several people was a Muslim convert who had been flagged in the past for being radicalized, police said, according to The Associated Press. The deadly attack is now being considered an act of terrorism, the AP reported.”
By the way, the first couple of stories I saw on this just identified him as a “Danish citizen” and then went on to talk about right-wing attacks. Because #journalism.
BUT OF COURSE: Schools Group That Urged Attorney General’s Anti-Parent Initiative Has Ties to Democrats, Unions.
You might want to ask your local school board if they belong to the National School Boards Association, and suggest that if they do, they quit. And if they don’t, make an issue of it in the next election.